Notepad++ (Don Ho)

Notepad++ is a free, open-source text and source code editor for Windows originally created and maintained by Don Ho. First released in the early 2000s, Notepad++ is built on the Scintilla editing component and provides features aimed at developers and power users, including syntax highlighting for many languages, code folding, multi-tab editing, search/replace with regular expressions, macro recording, and an extensible plugin architecture. The project is distributed under the GNU General Public License and is primarily hosted and released from its official site and source repository.

The project has been maintained by Don Ho with contributions from a community of volunteers and contributors. Notepad++ publishes regular releases (both 32- and 64-bit installers and portable builds) and maintains its source on GitHub. It is widely used as a lightweight but powerful editor for programming, scripting, and general text-editing tasks on Windows systems.